[NEW] FPS Guide

Enhance your FPS ⬆️⬆️⬆️

New World Settings

Updates

Updated 2021-10-6

 - Added NVIDIA Inspector section
       This section can really help if you have a low-end NVIDIA graphics card

Notes

** Expect low FPS in populated towns

** Not all settings will increase FPS, but can increase the overall performance such as latency and loading times

Open the game and click settings at the top right to open New World Settings.
These settings will make your game look bad, however you will get more FPS and will be able to see things more clear. If you wish to make your game not look so bad, I recommend putting some settings on medium/high instead.

I have highlighted the settings that are more significant than others, and you may pick and choose what you want to sacrifice for more FPS.

Preferences

• Bandwidth Mode: High
  Recommended high if you have fast internet, otherwise, put medium/low.
  
  
• Enable Analytics Reporting: Off

Visuals

Before customizing your video settings, set Video Quality to Low first. As suggested by u/Potential_Mango6857, there's no setting for antialiasing and other settings too, the game will get these "hidden" settings from the "Video Quality" preset setting, so if you run the custom preset you'll get antialiasing on.

Set Video Quality to Low, then change your settings below after.

• Window Mode: Fullscreen
  
  
• Resolution: Native resolution
  Your monitor's resolution. Choose a lower value for more FPS but your game will look blurry
  
  
• Field of View (Vertical): 50
  More FOV, less FPS however a lot of players are unable to play with low FOV
  
  
• Video Quality: Custom
  
  
• Effects details: Low
  
  
• Lightning details: Medium
  
  
• Object details: Low
  
  
• Post processing details: Medium
  
  
• Shadows details: Low
  
  
• Terrain details: Low
  
  
• Texture details: Medium-High
  Choose low if you have a low-end computer
  
  
• Water details: Low
  
  
• Show FPS: On
  
  
• V-Sync: Off
  
  
• Max FPS: Uncapped
  
  
• Player Nameplate Amount: 2-5
  Test this setting to see what you can handle
  
  
• Cap FPS in Background: Off
  
  
• Dynamic Resolution Scaling: On

Make sure to meet the minimum specs or you might have serious trouble with running the game.

NVIDIA Inspector

Tutorial

Using NVIDIA Inspector we can lower the LOD Bias even more than you can using the game's setting page.

NVIDIA Profile Inspector: https://github.com/Orbmu2k/nvidiaProfileInspector

Recommended number without losing much quality: 0.3750
Extreme number: 0x00000078
* Using high numbers may result in objects and terrain clipping with animals, mobs, and players.

If you do not have an NVIDIA graphics card, you can use alternative software like HiAlgo[www.hialgo.com]

Comparison

Here is a video using 0x00000078

NVIDIA Settings

3D Settings

To go on 3D NVIDIA Settings, right-click your desktop, and click NVIDIA Control Panel

Image Settings
1- Select "Adjust image settings with preview" on the left
2- Select "Use my preference emphasizing:"
3- Drag the slider to "Performance"
4- Click Apply
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3D Settings
1- Select "Manage 3D settings" on the left
2- Select "Global Settings" or "Program Settings" if you want to change only for New World
3- Change your settings to the following:

• Image Sharpening: Sharpening Off, Scaling disabled.
  
• Ambient Occlusion: Off
  
• Anisotropic Filtering: Off
  
• Antialiasing – FXAA: Off
  
• Antialiasing – Gamma correction: Off
  
• Antialiasing – Mode: Off
  
• Antialiasing – Setting: None
  
• Antialiasing – Transparency: Off
  
• CUDA – GPUs: All
  
• DSR – Factors: Off
  
• DSR – Smoothness: Off
  
• Low Latency Mode: On / Ultra (Different on different computers)
  
• Max Frame Rate: Off
  
• Monitor Technology: Fixed Refresh or G-Sync if you have G-Sync Monitor
  
• Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA): Off
  
• OpenGL rendering GPU: Choose your NVIDIA GPU
  
• Power management mode: Prefer maximum performance
  
• Shader Cache: On
  
• Texture filtering – Anisotropic sample optimization: On
  
• Texture filtering – Negative LOD bias: Allow
  
• Texture filtering – Quality: High performance
  
• Texture filtering – Trilinear optimization: On
  
• Threaded optimization: On
  
• Triple buffering: Off
  
• Vertical sync: Off
  
• Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames: 1

4- Click Apply
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Configure Surround, PhysX
1- Select "Configure Surround, PhysX" on the left
2- Under "PhysX Settings" choose your video card
3- Click Apply
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Display

Monitor's Refresh Rate
Surprisingly, there are many people who get 144hz monitors and never change their refresh rate in the control panel. Here is how to do it:
1- Select "Change resolution" on the left
2- Select the monitor you will be using to play New World
3- Select the highest refresh rate for that monitor
4- Click Apply
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Drivers

1- Open GeForce Experience or click here[www.nvidia.com]
2- Download and install the latest drivers

AMD settings

To open AMD settings, right-click your desktop, and click AMD Radeon Software

Graphics

1- Click Gaming – > Games -> Global Graphics
2- Select eSports
3- Change your settings to the following:

• Radeon Anti-Lag: Enabled
  
• Radeon Chill: Disabled
  
• Radeon Boost: Enable (For low-end computers)
  
• Radeon Image Sharpening: Enabled
  
• Sharpness: 70% - 90%
  
• Radeon Enhanced Sync: Disabled (Different on different computers)
  
• Wait for Vertical Refresh (V-sync): Off
  
• Anti-Aliasing: Use application settings
  
• Anti-Aliasing Method: Multisampling
  
• Morphological Anti-Aliasing: Disabled
  
• Anisotropic Filtering: Disabled
  
• Texture Filtering Quality: Performance
  
• Surface Format Optimization: Enabled
  
• Tessellation Mode: Off
  
• OpenGL Triple Buffering: Disabled
  
• Reset Shader Cache: Perform a reset every 6-12 months to free storage

Display

AMD Freesync / AMD Freesync Premium: Enabled

Drivers

Download and install the latest drivers [www.amd.com]

Other Settings

Turn Game mode On

1- Search "game mode" on the Windows search tool
2- Click "Game Mode Settings"
3- Turn Game Mode On

Disable Xbox Game Bar and Captures

1- Open Windows Settings (Windows key + i)
2- Click Gaming
3- Click on Xbox Game Bar and disable it
3- Click on Captures and disable background recording

Disable Nvidia Instant Replay and/or Overlay

To turn off Nvidia Instant replay:
1- Press Alt+Z or Open Nvidia Geforce Experience
2- Click on the triangle share button at the top right
3- Click on the Instant Replay button and click "Turn Off"

To turn off Nvidia Overlay:
1- Open Nvidia Geforce Experience
2- Click on the gear icon for settings at the top right
3- Disable "IN-GAME OVERLAY"

Enable Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling

1- Search "Graphic Settings" on Windows search tool
2- Enable Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling

Add New World in Graphics Performance Preference

1- Search "Graphic Settings" on Windows search tool
2- In "Choose an app to set preference" select Desktop App
3- Click "Browse" and select NewWorld.exe
This is found in your New World installation folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\New World\bin
4- Click "Options" under NewWorld.exe and select High performance

High Performance Power Option

1- Search "Power Options" on Windows search tool
2- Select "High performance"

Background Apps

1- Search "Background Apps" on Windows search tool
2- Turn off "Let apps run in the background

Disable Fullscreen Optimization

1- Go to Steam library and right-click New World
2- Hover on manage and click Browse Local Files
3- Right-click "NewWorldLauncher.exe" and click Properties
4- Click Compatibility tab and check "Disable fullscreen optimization

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High Priority

1- Open New World
2- Open Task Manager
3- Go to Details and right click NewWorld.exe
4- Click "Set Priority" and set it to high

Install New World on SSD

It will increase loading times. If you do not have an SSD, try to install New World on the fastest HDD and that is being used less by other processes. Ex: install New World on a separate drive than your windows.

Turn Off Hardware Acceleration on Discord

1- Open Discord and click Settings
2- Click on Advanced and turn off Hardware Acceleration

Turn Off Steam Overlay

1- Open steam and click on settings on the top left
2- Click In-game and uncheck "Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game"

Disable Overlays

Make sure to disable any overlays from third-party software like Discord and Overwolf

Disable Antivirus

This is optional however if you are able to manage your computer without an antivirus, disable real-time antivirus softwares.

Overclock your GPU

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[Local Night OwL]

Great Guide Just wanted to put my 2 cents If you have a gsync / freesync compatible monitor you need to have vsync on with gsync to get rid of tearing!

[Slinkston]

I had some serious eye/brain sore issues with the graphics of the game from a fresh install. I would not be playing the game if not for this guide. I highly recommend checking this out even if you have a beast of a machine.

[pascal]

10/10 guide ty

[Kev]

Thanks for the guide. This is a strange one - but I recommend adding a note to uninstall Citrix. For some reason recently having Citrix Workspace installed is maxing my frames at 10fps. Uninstalling it then restarting brings them back up to normal/expected levels.

[Morkvarg]

@maik-a.r.90 does this happen only to New World? Try another demanding game and if it keeps happening your GPU might need new thermal paste, i had the same problem 1 year ago.

[maik-a.r.90]

my pc gets blackscreen and reboot every time I start it, cant even change the settings..
watercooled 2080ti 5600x 32gb and new graphic-driver

[BoOsTeR]

@devcor , agreed. it might be because the game graphic optimizations are so so bad. different between 4k lowest graphic setting ( without negative lod bias ) and 1080p lowest graphic setting ( with negative lod bias ) is just 12-20 fps and its kinda so wird tbh

[Rogred]

@devcor , dude turning that setting alone down to "high" made me have a steady 72fps with everything else on "very high". Thanks for pointing that out

[k1]

5600x + 2080 on 1080p high is in towns 90-110 and open field around 140-210 fps. After the fixes I get 95-120 in town and open field 150-220. But I prefer the graphics so ill stay on High but ir fixed some input lags!

[LilBlkCloud]

I'm not able to set the game to high priority for some reason. I get an error window: Unable to change priority.